Police arrest 2 in swastika-jacket robbery

Police say one of the two men burned the jacket in a grill at his house. Now he faces a tampering-with-evidence charge.

Staff report

Police charged two men with robbery after they stole a jacket with a swastika on it, according to Gainesville Police Department arrest reports.

Daniel Joseph Schexnaydre, 29, and Alex William Flinchum, 26, both of Gainesville, on Thursday approached a man sitting on an outside wall wearing a swastika-emblazoned armband on his jacket, the report says. Schexnaydre and Flinchum forcibly removed the man's jacket and left the scene.

The man had been in Turlington Plaza on the University of Florida campus, where 150 people then gathered to protest the swastika.

Police say Schexnaydre burned the jacket in a grill at his house.

Both are charged with the felonies of strong-arm robbery and conspiracy, according to jail records online. Schexnaydre also faces a felony charge of tampering with evidence.

Schexnaydre and Flinchum told police they struck and kicked the victim while taking his jacket.